Title: |
In the Meadow |
Artist: |
Keller, Henry George 'Henry Keller' (Cleveland, 1869 - San Diego, 1949) |
Date: |
c. 1920 - 1930 |
Medium: |
Original Etching |
Note: |
Henry George Keller 'Henry Keller': A very influential modernist
American painter of the early twentieth century, Henry George Keller first studied
art at the unlikely institution of the Western Reserve School of Design
for Women, in 1887. Unable to find a teaching position in Cleveland he worked
for eight years at the Morgan lithograph Company designing circus posters.
In 1899, Henry Keller resumed his artistic education in Germany and studied at
the art academies of Munich and Dusseldorf. His art received a silver medal
at the 1902 Munich Kunstakademie exhibition. He returned to Cleveland in
1903 to begin teaching as an instructor of watercolor at the Cleveland School
of Art. Henry George Keller also created his own informal school at his family home in
Berlin Heights, Ohio, during the summers of 1903 through to 1914. As a teacher
of watercolor and drawing techniques, Henry Keller's influence was vast. Some
of his most important pupils from this period include Charles Burchfield,
Paul Travis and Frank Wilcox. |
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Beginning around 1910, Henry Keller championed the cause of
modern art, both in his drawings and paintings and through his lectures
and writings. In 1913 he exhibited two of his paintings at the now famous
New York Armory Show, which introduced modern art to America. During the
following years, Henry Keller's art was included in major exhibitions at such
institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Cleveland
Museum of Art. |
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As well as being a master of landscapes and figure studies,
Henry Keller devoted much of his talents to depictions of animals, particularly
in his original etchings and lithographs. Keller's first experiments with
etching date from around 1910. During the 1920's and 1930's a number of
his etchings and lithographs were commissioned by both the Print Club of
Cleveland and the Print-A-Month Club. In the Meadow is typical
of Henry Keller's extraordinary ability to capture the essence of his subject
with a minimum of lines and shades. |
Size: |
5 1/4 X 6 3/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height
preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
Condition: |
Printed on wove paper and with full, deckled margins. Signed
in pencil by Henry Keller under the plate mark. A beautifully printed impression
with plate tone and in excellent condition throughout. In the Meadow
represents a superb, original example of the etched art of Henry George
Keller. |
Subject: |
Henry George Keller, Henry Keller, In the Meadow, original etching, Cleveland
Artists, his most important pupils from this period include Charles Burchfield,
Paul Travis and Frank Wilcox, modern art, modernist American painter. |
Price: |
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